Administrative Turbulence: Origins of the Origin

摘要

This article focuses on the origins of administrative turbulence, especially in the face of non-linear dynamic change of current socio-economic conditions. An argument made by this article is that the key parameter catalyzing such turbulence results mainly from the interaction between the government's decision-making and the utilization of academic disciplines. Under the surface of this is that an interdisciplinary approach to policy decision-making and administration is applied only when such disciplines can contribute to the government's policy discourses on economic development projects, and thereby leaving behind equilibrium of development and sustainability. Also involved is the divergence among academic disciplines in contributing to the government's policy design and decision-making process, mostly caused by the unconformity of their principles and methods.